Definition of hazard

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Hazard (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

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Jump :: Jump (v. t.) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
Undergo :: Undergo (v. t.) To undertake; to engage in; to hazard.
Venture :: Venture (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
Mum-chance :: Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.
Hazardry :: Hazardry (n.) Rashness; temerity.
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..
Main :: Main (n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard..
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard)..
Enterprise :: Enterprise (n.) That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise..
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..
Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet..
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Enterprise :: Enterprise (v. i.) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult..
Adventurous :: Adventurous (n.) Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song..
Wagering :: Wagering (a.) Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.
Die :: Die (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance..
Venture :: Venture (v. i.) To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare..
Discriminous :: Discriminous (a.) Hazardous; dangerous.
Scuffle :: Scuffle (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters..
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